page_title: Simone Michel-Lévy
section_title: World War II
hierarchical_section_title: Simone Michel-Lévy / World War II
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Place Simone-Michel-Lévy, Paris 7e. «&#160;Simone Michel-Lévy, 1906-1945, résistante déportée, pendue à Flossenbürg, compagnon de la Libération.&#160;»
context_page_description: Simone Michel-Lévy was a French Resistance worker. She had several pseudonyms – Emma, Françoise, Madame Royale, Mademoiselle Flaubert or Madame Bertrand - and is one of 6 female compagnons de la Libération.
context_section_description: Joining the staff of the PTT in 1924, she was allowed into the rédacteurs course in 1941 and made regional director of telephones, in which role she got involved in the "commutation" of telephonic communication, in Paris. This was a strategic position, which she used to set up a clandestine information network, in particular communication with Normandy, where her activities allowed the establishment of a radio network later used at the time of D-Day. Her Resistance activity went further, however - she organised a courier system to get messages to England, diverted telegraph and telephone material to Resistance groups, and sabotaged departures for the STO.
  She was arrested by the Gestapo on 5 November 1943 and tortured by Georges Delfanne. Without having given away even her name, she was deported to Ravensbrück, then Flossenbürg, where she managed to organise a rising against the camp guards.  It was for this that she was hanged ten days before the camp was liberated by the Allies.
caption: The plaque for the Place Simone Michel-Lévy in Paris, dedicated to her memory in 2006.
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